Read Psalm 119:17-24 17Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. 18Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things
Tag: Law
TLIC Psalms. September 28. That They Might Keep His Statutes.
To live is Christ allows us to finally keep God’s law by removing the bondage to God’s law. By replacing law with Spirit, the law is fulfilled in us. Not perfectly on this side of Heaven, but with perfect grace filling the gaps.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 304. OCTOBER 31: THE LAW.
Now, in Christ, God’s first word to us is always grace. And his second word to us is faith. “I love you…so trust me…” “Christ is alive in you…so to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 248. SEPTEMBER 5: END OF THE LAW.
As ungodly saints we pursue Christ. We trust Christ. We submit to Christ. We desire his life, his character, his love. His life becomes our law – the “law of Christ.” Not a law we must live up to, but a law that is alive in us. That’s “to live is Christ.”
TLIC DAILY. DAY 238. AUGUST 26: NO LONGER I.
“To live is Christ” has imputed to us a whole new self. A righteous self. A self that delights in God and his love. And a new self that, by grace through faith, can actually walk in the new way of the Spirit.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 237. AUGUST 25: THE NEW WAY.
“To live is Christ” means that his life and his love now control us. The new way of the Spirit makes knowing God intimately both our greatest good and our greatest desire in life.
To Live is Christ 